Installed z/OS Explorer or CICS Explorer into an existing Eclipse instance using the Help > Install new software menu. This is using the Eclipse p2 update mechanism.

Both Installation Manager and Eclipse p2 take care of dependency management and will install updates from a repository or update site hosted on an IBM website. You must use the correct update mechanism (Installation Manager or Eclipse p2) based on your original installation method. To install CICS Explorer:

Because the CICS Explorer is written on top of the Eclipse framework, you can use the Eclipse Update framework to update these products and their associated plug-ins with any available maintenance. This is provided by the built-in Eclipse Update Manager.

The Eclipse Update Manager is a robust Update Manager that manages updates to an Eclipse application to ensure applications are updated consistently and in a fail-safe manner.

In particular, the Eclipse Update Manager provides dependency management so that Eclipse applications that have dependencies on other Eclipse plug-ins can explicitly state which prerequisites and co-requisites are necessary to install the fix. This allows, for example, a CICS Performance Analyzer fix to enforce a dependency on a particular level of the CICS Explorer so that the CICS Performance Analyzer fix would only install into the CICS Explorer if the dependency was satisfied. This ensures that maintenance is always applied correctly and leaves the CICS Explorer in a consistent state.

The Eclipse Update Manager also provides roll-back capability so that any maintenance applied can always be rolled-back after application. It also allows cumulative maintenance to be rolled back so that no matter how much maintenance is applied, the application can always be rolled back to the original configuration if necessary. This is a useful fail-safe method to ensure that applying maintenance is not a one-way activity.

To update from within CICS Explorer or z/OS Explorer:

Run the base Eclipse package product (such as z/OS Explorer or CICS Explorer) as usual.

Select Help > Install New Software... from the top menu.

Click the Available Software Sites hyperlink. The update site URL for CICS Explorer and all CICS Tools plug-ins should already be present in the list of available update sites if you used p2 to do the original install, and you should select it using the checkbox next to it. If for some reason it is not there, you can add it:

Select the Add... button.

Type in a name for this update site.

Enter the URL into the Location text box or add the zip file downloaded from IBM Fix Central.

Click OK.

Ensure the checkbox is selected against it once added.

Click OK in the Preferences Dialog to return.

Select Help > Check For Updates.

If any are available, follow instructions in the dialogs to install.

If you would like further guidance on how to use the Eclipse provided updating facilities, refer to
Updating and installing software in the Eclipse Workbench User Guide.

Maintenance from a downloaded or IBM-hosted Installation Manager repository

IBM Installation Manager provides wizards that guide you through the steps that you must take to install, modify, update, rollback, or uninstall your IBM products.

Open the Installation Manager File > Preferences > Repositories page. Note that the Apply button will save the preferences that you enter. When you are done, you should press OK to get out of the preferences page.

To update using the IBM-hosted repository, make sure that your chosen repository URL is listed as available within the dialog, adding the URL if necessary.

To update using the Installation Manager Repository downloaded from IBM Fix Central, you must ensure that the zip file is added as a repository.

To perform an update using the list of update site(s) that you configured in the preferences, click the Update option from the Installation Manager Main screen and follow the prompts to update your chosen products.

In order to find available updates, select the following options from the "Select product" tab:

Product Group:
Other softwareProduct: <
the product you are updating>
Version: <
the version of the product you are updating>
Operating System: <
the operating system the product is installed on>

You will then be able to view the available fixes, and download the appropriate one.

The products will have the following names:

CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS

CICS Deployment Assistant for z/OS

CICS Explorer

CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS

CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS

IBM Explorer for z/OS

IBM Session Manager for z/OS

The version of the product you are updating can be found by running the base Eclipse package product such as IBM Explorer for z/OS or CICS Explorer and selecting
Help > About <base product name> from the top menu and viewing the version in the about text. For plug-ins within that product, click the "
Installation Details" button and navigate through the Installed Software table.